My painters are not working Monday. Stock up on bread and milk. [View All]

[DemoTex]

The Mexican painters working on the exterior of my house are not working on Monday. They are joining the strike. This is in sleepy, southern, Greenville, SC.

These are some of the best painters and hardest workers I have ever seen. They start at exactly 8:00 am, take 30 minutes for lunch, and leave at 4:30 pm. They re-did my interior paint job in December and January after I was ripped-off by an asshole wino painter last Fall. Now that the weather is warm, they are back doing the exterior of the house.

They just told me that everything will shut down on Monday, nation-wide. They will not work, they will spend no money, and they will stay out of the streets. May 1 will be a purely economic strike by the Latino community. Fancy and plain restaurants nation-wide will close for lack of busboys, dishwashers, and chefs. Airlines will be impacted as cleaners and caterers stay home. Businesses we never dreamed of being dependent on this groups' labor will be paralyzed on Monday. My house will not get painted on Monday. Grass will grow as mowers and blowers sit idle.

Monday, according to Vic, Carlos, and Ernesto, will be the biggest SOS (suspension-of-service) this nation has ever seen. It will be a peaceful action along the lines of a French general strike. This strike is, they emphasized to me, extremely well planned. It could be a model for our emasculated labor movement and spineless Democratic leaders, if we are lucky. Let's hope so.

It looks like a nation-wide snow storm blowing in from south of the Rio Grande on Monday. High drifts could paralyze certain locations. Those in the blizzard's path might consider stocking up on bread and milk. Or beer.